The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,298 - Jul 10 2005

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A better runner, though less likely to run FASTER
A wood mount CHESTNUT
Accompanied by the doctor, we turned and left WITHDREW
Brought up when Ed was at the back REARED
Consider to be calculating RECKON
Didn't succumb to the lunchtime dessert, worried about RESISTED
Dropped off outside the local, scrambled up SHINNED
Edits, giving me tips about EMENDS
From a quick look, said it's something small and hairy PEKE
Having almost reached, are found to be in the wrong end NEARED
Increase when the case is unpacked at bedtime? ESCALATE
It's right when one loses a quarter of one's land PROPER
Last thing said is 'We're tumbling in an avalanche' FAREWELL
Looks one's best? REGARDS
Mess the cockney made of the tree HASH
No longer a drop in the ocean, anyhow ONCE
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Play about a singer LARK
Practice that gets one's patronage CUSTOM
Rails to protect the swimmers BATHERS
Restored to favour, you thought, again REDEEMED
Sheet music and records SCORES
Shut up and break in to get the jewellery PENDANT
Splashes those mixing it! SPATTERS
Stands for 'the little luxuries of life' TREATS
Started out in an action role DEPARTED
The last one in Senegal who lives in squalor? SLATTERN
The way to stand the pegs upright inside STREET
Think it's about time to intercede MEDITATE
Was likely to, if waited on TENDED
With the parts left, is carrying on PORTIONS
With the runner beans, I leave in the plants BEGONIAS
Work out, for your body FIGURE